cosmic rays

A device that can detect particles arriving from space does not necessarily require a multimillion-dollar laboratory. A compact…

Physicists at CERN have directly measured proton-oxygen collisions at 9.62 TeV per nucleon pair, closely recreating an important…

IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…

On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground…

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came…

In 2021, scientists detected a cosmic ray entering Earth’s atmosphere with as much kinetic energy as a fast-moving…

The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…

For years, scientists have searched for the sources of the most energetic particles in our galaxy, cosmic rays…

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of…

A project from NASA to study the Antarctic found strange radio waves that could not be traced back…

Voyager 2 continues to travel at over 55,000 kilometres per hour, moving deeper into interstellar space. Its power…

A student built a particle detector for just $100; the pocket-sized device can track invisible particles raining down from space at light’s speed; it is now being used in high-altitude balloon missions and major physics experiments